Q. What can I use OpenAlex for?

OpenAlex is an open-source scholarly citation knowledge base, similar to Scopus or Web of Science. It gathers information on scholarly publications such as academic articles, books, and dissertations, and tracks the connections between them. Like Google Scholar, it is free to use for everyone.

OpenAlex can be searched for works, authors, institutions, and a lot more. OpenAlex will regularly add a direct link to the PDF for Open Access results. While OpenAlex does not directly integrate with the University Libraries' collections to access paywalled results, you can install the LibKey Nomad extension to connect to our collections from many paywalled scholarly publisher sites.

OpenAlex will also link to worked cited by a result as well as later results that cited it. OpenAlex can also be used to track the research impact of individual works, authors, journals, and institutions.